Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝

🇻🇦Catholic | Wife 💍| future mom | Italophile 🇮🇹🇺🇸 l proud millennial | DC via WI 🧀~ @wistatesociety comms | NJ & FL respecter

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

Major life update, dear X mutuals!

My husband and I are expecting!

Very blessed and excited that baby girl will be joining us in Sept! 🎀💕👶🏻

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I know some people post on here the second they get a positive test but we waited awhile to announce as this is our second — we have one in heaven after a miscarriage last fall during the early second trimester, and that was really hard. This doesn’t replace the child we lost, but we are still incredibly excited for this baby and feel very blessed to be parents.

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

@SmashStros @BradWilcoxIFS @lymanstoneky Hmm I don’t know, what kind of room are you in?

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

At the Knights of Columbus pancake breakfast this morning, a handful of nice boomer men were playing live music on guitars — but it was like all Catholic funeral music and Marty Haugen-esque church tunes, “Be Not Afraid,” “On Eagles Wings” 🤔🧐

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

@musings_blonde Horrifying 🫪

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

@BobbyV303 Thank you! ☺️💕

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

Major life update, dear X mutuals!

My husband and I are expecting!

Very blessed and excited that baby girl will be joining us in Sept! 🎀💕👶🏻

———————-

I know some people post on here the second they get a positive test but we waited awhile to announce as this is our second — we have one in heaven after a miscarriage last fall during the early second trimester, and that was really hard. This doesn’t replace the child we lost, but we are still incredibly excited for this baby and feel very blessed to be parents.

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

UFC just dropped a killer AI promo for tomorrow’s White House event featuring Theodore Roosevelt boxing 🥊🔥

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

Arlington was spared — the storm primarily hit MARYLAND (and DC)

[Arlington Now @ARLnowDOTcom]

The worst of the storm just missed Arlington, but it did result in some dramatic cloud photos

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

Fun fact — cake boss’s daughter had their wedding reception as the same wedding venue in Jersey as us. (but is I ASSUME bc he’s the cake boss the cakes came from CakeBoss not from the bakery we used)

North Jersey really is a small world 😂

[Sebastian Gorka DrG @SebGorka]

Almost every cannoli in my life has been a soggy disappointment.

Not these!

Patriotic Friday treats for the West Wing.

Thank you @CakeBossBuddy!
@WhiteHouse

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

@SebGorka @CakeBossBuddy @WhiteHouse That’s Jersey for you! ☺️

[AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ @AwakenedOutlaw]

One phenomenon we're all watching unfold isn't simply Europeans discovering/enjoying America for the first time b/c of the World Cup, but the effect it's having in reminding Americans themselves of our love of country by seeing it through their eyes.

And if you think that this incredibly valuable phenomenon, which greatly benefits this particular moment in time (occurring simultaneously with our 250th celebration), is just another massive case of happenstance, and that we lucked out in 2018 when the tournament was awarded to us, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale that you absolutely have to see.

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

@natssauer This is brilliant!!!

[Sopranos World @SopranosWorld]

Europeans experiencing New Jersey on their way to the World Cup

[🇺🇸 Ron 2.0 ✝️ 🇺🇸 @Ron613_]

Our son just sent us this vid from Ocean City, MD. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤩

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

@StefJohnson21 @capitalweather The Manhattan on the Potomac! 😌🌈🏙️

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

@WifeMamaHome Yum. I don’t think it would make it to the cookie stage if I had this cookie dough 😋

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

Trying to catch all the emails falling on me like Tetris this Friday afternoon. 🫪

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

@CartoonsHateHer So spot on. You never see the moms with careers freaking out online like this — we don’t have TIME to do that!

[ChairmanOohMowMow @ooh_mow]

It’s been fascinating to watch Europeans run around America while here for the World Cup.

They’re eating Texas barbecue, and touring state parks, like it’s a lifelong dream.

And we take it all for granted.

Americans spend so much time arguing with each other, that we forget how inspiring this country is.

Probably by design.

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

@thebeltwayagent Visit the Midwest! Wisconsin is so nice during the summer — drink a summer shandy on the lake! 😎🌊

[Katherine, Director of Snacks🥝 @kjon]

Freddy is a modern day Alexis de Tocqueville

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Let me explain why I think Freddy resonates.

Lots of Europeans visit the USA as tourists. They visit New York City, or Washington DC, or Hollywood, or Las Vegas, and if they visit natural beauty too, they go to really crowded places like the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone.

So while they see our cultural and natural icons, they are mostly in blue cities and they therefore also see the decline, the homeless, the drugs, the dirt and the rude, rude Americans.

But Freddy is not doing that. Freddy is driving, and he’s doing it through the heartland, where people are kind and polite, the skies are wide open, and the bounty of Buc-ees and Bass Pro Shops are overwhelming.

Freddy is not seeing fentanyl and decline.

He is seeing the real, hopeful, patriotic, kind America that European tourists rarely traverse.

And he loves it.

That’s why Freddy is a phenomenon.